Method of making carton or can bodies from fibrous sheets.



C. C. WOODS.

METHOD OF MAKING CARTON 0R CAN BODIES FROM FIBROUS SHEETS.

APPLICATIONv FILED SEPT121. 1914.

Patented Dec. 14, 1915.

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CHARLES C. WOODS, OF PHILLIPSBURG, NEW JERSEY.

METHOD OF MAKING CARTON 0R CAN BODIES FROM FIBROUS SHEETS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 141, 1915.

Application filed September 21, 1914, Serial No. 862,779.

To all wiwm it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES C. Woons, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Phillipsburg, in the county of Warren and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Method of Making Carton or Can Bodies from Fibrous Sheets, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to the manufacture of carton or can bodies from sheets of pa per or fibrous material, such as cardboard, pasteboard, or'the like, and the invention consists in the method hereinafter described, whereby the manufacture of such carton or can bodies is simplified and made more economical and practical.

In order that my invention may be clearly understood, I have illustrated one form in which my process may be carried out, and in which;

Figure l is a plan view of a continuous strip of a suitable quasi-rigid material from which the carton or can bodies are made. Fig. 2 is a similar View of a blank, cut from said strip. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a former, with a blank thereon.

In the practice of my invention, I provide a sheet 1 of cardboard, pasteboard, or similar thick, heavy strong paper such as is usually employed in making carton or can bodies and place thereon at predetermined and at graded. spaces corresponding with the blanks from which the bodies are to be made, and transversely of the end or end portions of said blanks, gum or paste 2. The gum or paste is then dried or the strip dried so as to dry the gum or paste, after which blanks 3 are cut in such manner or form that, at least, one end portion thereof will be gummed or pasted on one side, the next step consists in moistening the gum or paste, and the next, in forming the can or carton body which is done by folding the blank or blanks around or on a suitable form 4 so as to overlap the meeting ends of the blank and together.

The forms on which the blanks are folded, as described, may be cylindrical or angular in cross section and may be either solid .or hollow and suitable means may be provided, if desired, for heating said form or forms in the usual manner and the pressing together of the gummed or overlapping ends of the blanks in forming the bodies may be done in any way, or by any means at the time said blanks are folded.

The various steps of the above process may be carried out in a single machine at one place, or by means of a number of machines at one or diiferent places.

After the body of the carton or can has been formed, as described, the heads are applied in the usual manner, or one head may be applied and the carton or can filled after which the other head may be applied, or said heads may both be applied and the carton or can may be filled through an aperture in one of said heads.

With this invention various steps of the process may be carried into effect on or by different machines and at diiferent places, and this facilitates and cheapens the process of manufacture and use by reason of the fact that the blanks may be formed and gummed or pasted at one point or place and shipped to another point or place, where the bodies may be formed, and this shipment of the blanks may be effected at much less expense than that involved in shipping the complete cartons or cans, and many other advantages will suggest themselves to those familiar with the business to which this invention relates.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein described method of making carton or can bodies, which consists in providing a strip of fibrous quasi-rigid material of any desired length, applying adhesive to said strip at predetermined points and transversely thereof, drying said adhesive, severing said strip adjacent to said press the same adhesive to form blanks having adhesive as my invention I have signed my name in at one end thereof, moistening the adhesive presence of the subscribing Witnesses this on the blanks, folding the blanks 0n suit- 11th day of September, 1914.

able forms, and pressing the overlapping CHARLES C. WOODS. 5 portion provided with the adhesive upon Witnesses:

the opposite end of said blank. C. MULREANY,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing H. E. THOMPSON. 

